The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-22 00:00:00

WYK MAI S. AR RI% ED•-I Gottenhurgb, I Dublin, 2W aterford. I)us--•t Cadiz, z Lisbon, z z Watelforti. 1' 11 L. 6 U N. SOLT.M QUID DICERE AUDEAT? L 0 N D 0 AV, SATURDAY, SEPTVMBER 27, 1810. Dispatches were received this morning at the Ad miralty from Oporto, dated the sth inst. which stile, that, intelligence had been teethed from Lord WELLINGTON, two d;iys later in date than the patchesr from his Lordship announcing the surrender ut Almeida. •-• ' The British head-quarters were still at Celerico. and the divisions of the army in their former posi tions. Skirmisl es with the different out-posts were daily occurring, and the enemy's patroles were harasseclin all quarters. Dicpatches have also been received from Cor runna, stating, that Throughout the whole of the INT , ,rth of Spain, the people were up in arms against the en , my, who was in a very distressed condition. Desertions .numerous and daily occurred. These Di:latches arc dated the gth inst. I i ne , t- arc, tints Vd, that an expedilOn was fitting out at Corunna against Sa;.tona aid St. Andero, and there 18 a s the fullestscutihdetice that they would be attended with success, as the spiiit of patriotism seemed to,Le regenerating in all quilt iers. Dispatches also have arrived from Mr. \VELLESLEY, at Cadiz, dated the 30th ult. and' letters of the same da!e from Gen. GRAHAM, but no important military operation had taken place ill the interval from the 20th, the date of the dispatches previously received We have seen the Gazette Extraordinary of the regency, of August 30, .which gives the details of the expedition under the Spanish General LACY.— The ►ioop3 :disembarked at Moguer. The Junta had issued a Proclamation, stating, ti at as the French had sutf-red much from the discoveries nude by the interc , -pted letters, Spa nish Ofiieers sh uld be cautious what they write, lest thvir letters shOulti also be intercepted, and ope rate to the disadvantage of !heir country. In the Expedition under General LACY, the con du& of the Spanish and British Marines is highly extolled:. • • , - This . morning a Gattenburgh Mail arrived. The foJlowtng is the only article of intelligence w&ell it • brings : " Oatano, AUG. 3.1 . We d n esd 4y the 291 h inst. her Majesty the Queen arrived from Stromsholm, and immediately repaired to a country seat, situated at a small distance from this town, belonging to .Nlr. J. D. BRAWN, merchant. In the evening, her Ma. kitty proceeded to another country seat, which aper tains to the house or trade of HAMNSTROM, blo t Yesterday her Majesty was pleased to receive, at the Carle, the congratulations of the Deputies of the four States, on his Majesty's safe arriv..l in this plaCe. The Deputies were, the High Marshal Ba ron FLEMING, BibilOp ROSENSTEIN, Mr. WAGELIN, Spokesman of the States of the Burghers ;. and Mr. OLsoN, Spokesman 'of the Peasantry ; who experienced the most gracious reception."—(Stock holm Gazette, Sept. 5.) Coln OF A LETTER RECEIVED IST GLASGQW, FROM HELIGOLAND, DATED SEPT. BTH. You will probably hear by this Packet, alarm ing rumours of this Island being invaded, and al though we acknowledge the information which reached this place on the subjefi, is such as to have some weight with the Governor and the Consul, we believe that neither themselves nor any person upon the Island, entertain any serious apprehension. If ever the enemy had such an intention, they have certainly negle6led the time when they might easily; perhaps, have succeeded in destroying our ware houses, by availing theinselves of a calm to come over in their gun-boats, when our ships of war, for want of wind, could not act to advantage in repelling their attack.. • This; however, is now at an end, and it is very-improbable that we shall have many, if any more calms before Julie next, inde pendent of which we have got a reinforcement of a frigate, and are expeeling- a detachment of artillery and other ships of war from Britain, which have been applied tor. " All British subjeas have enrolled themselves, and are trained daily to the use of the great guns and small arms. These and other precautionary mea sures have been adopted both by our Commanders and Merchants ;, but we repeat, that few, if any, entertain any serious apprehensions, and we have certainly none. The tumour which occasioned all this bustle, represents the Datch preparing a flotilla in the Texel, for the purpose of taking the Island either by GU rprise or strata;em. " The Commandlug Officer, off the Texl, S;r EDwArtri , PELLEW, has been informed of their in tention, and we have nu doubt, if they are serious, they will be foiled in their attt-mpt." On. Tuesday last a very numerous body of the ' Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin as. sembled at the Royal Exchange in that City, con formable to a requisition of the Quarter Sessions Grand Jury, and another requisition (ruin several Freemen and Freeholdtrs of Dublin, (or the purpose of taking into consideration the subjea of a repeaj oldie Legislative Union. Sir JAMES RIDDALL, one of the Sheriffs, took the Chair, and appointed F. W. CONWAY, Esq. Secretary to the meeting. The pressure of the crowd was so great, and the struggle to get near the Chair so eager, that Sir JAMES was obliged to address himself earnestly to the people, exhorting them to preserve order and decorum.— The requisitions were then read by the Secretary. After which Mr. HUTTON rose and strongly .con deinned the Union, as injurious to Ireland, but at the same time he professed ha eareest desire of Bri tish connexion, and a wish to give the firmest sup port to -the Throne of Great Britain. • He concluded with moving, " That a Committee, consisting of nine Gentlemen, should be appointed to prepare a petition to his MAJESTY, and•anoth?r to th..t House of Commons, for a repeal of the Aa of Union." • The Committee was then formed, and atter some discussion, agreed upon a Petition to the followie g etre& to the House of Commons. The P,Aition commences with setting forth the strong desire:of. the Petitioners to preserve British connexion, at , d their admiration of the principles of the British Constitution ; it next proceeds to enumerate the be.: nefits which it was said would result to Ireland from a Legislative Union, and then eotreats . the House of Commons to inquire whether the Union has fulfilled, or is calculated to fulfil, the expecta tions of its advoCates. The Petitioners then say, that a repeal of the Union is necessary, be cause a resident Parliament is necessary to pro mote the interests of Iceland ; because the Government of England did not propose the Union to promote the mutual benefits of the two Countries, but on account of the trouble and diffi culty of managing an independent Parliament ; because the period at which the Union was propos ed was not calculated for calm discussion and fair . investigation ; and because the means used to effect it were corrupt and iniquitous ;=—because the Pat - 7 hament of Ireland, being delegated to make Laws, fiat Legislators, could not transfer their Legislative Authority without the sanaion of their Constituents, and that a decided majority of the Constitutional Body was hostile to that measure. The Petition then sets forth the amount of the Expenditure and Debt of Leland during seven years of war previous to the Union, and seven years of war subsequent to it, and inters, that because the Expenditure has been greater, and that the Debt has increased more rapidly since the Claim' than before it, that measure ought to be repealed. The Petition then states, that five-sixths of the Members of the Imperial Parliament hive never vi sited Ireland, and that one-sixth of the Irish Repre sentatives are not natives of Ireland ; and that the promises made by the British Minister, when he proposed the Union, were forgotten by him, dis avowed by his successors, and disregarded by Parlia ment. The Petition concludes with stating, that the dis tresses of Ireland have taken their chief rise from the inattention of Landlords to the welfare and com forts of their Tenantry, from the Foreign Expendi ture of the Country, caused by its ahsentee•, and its Foreign National Debt, and from its consequent want of C.fpital, Trade, and tranquility; that all these evils have increased by. the Union, and there fore the Petitioners pray for a repeal of that mea sure. We are not in peSseSsion of the whole of the pro ceedings of this Meeting, and therefore do not know whether this Petition was agreed to or not. Under these circumstances, it may, perhaps, be pre mature to enter into a.discussion of the merits of the question; but we cannot avoid'observing, that the groulds set forth in the Petition, if calmly and dis passionately considered, are far from warranting an application for a repeal of the Union. It is true that the Expenditure and the Debt of Ireland have greatly increas:Ad within the last ten years; so have the Expenditure and Ds:bt of Great Britain ; and it would just be as fair to attribute the one to the Union as the other. We are engaged in a war unprecedented in its nature, and we have no alternative but that of unconditional submission to a ferocious tyrant, or the most determined re sistance. That that resistance can only be made at an enormous expence, and by the most painful sa crifices, must be obvious to every man who will reason dispassionately. The trade of Ireland has soffereJ, but sorely no one who louk at the sle. r v of the Conthient, 'and 'contemplates the extraordi nary and violent measures which BUONAPARTE has adopted to ruin the trade of this Em pire, will be at a loss to account for a tem porary commercial embarrassment. It is noto rious that the Trade of Ireland did greatly-in crease after the Union, nothing therefore, but party prejudice could attribute the stagnation under which it is at present stated, to labour, to that measure.— With regard . to the inattention of Irish Landlords, and the drain occasioned by absentees, and a foreign National Debt, those are evils which would have existed without a Union, and which did exist before it. For considerably more than ball a century the People of Ireland have complained of the per petual drain occasioned by absentees. That the fo reign National Debt•would have existed to as great, or perhaps a greater extent, tf the Union had not taken place, is cbvioas, because Ireland must have borro ed money it s;!e had remained separate, and from the want of Capital in Ireland, tie loans must have been etleated in Ehglmul. Toe Petition states, that five-iixths of the Nlembers of the Imperial Par 'lament have never been in Irelind, and that, there- • fore, the inter..sis of Irelan must •be neglee.ed. It m'ght with qual !ru , h he said, that ,ti% e-sixths of the Members of the Itnneual Pa:liar n e t; t have'ne, er been in Scotland, and tiier:fore the interest of Scot - kind aut-t be neglected. Such an assertion certainly could not be made with fairness with respell to Scotland, and we are convinced it is er:Fally.un founded as appled .to Ireland. But then it is sai;i, that one-sixth of the liish Representatives are not naiit es of Ireland. This may be true, but the Pe titioners should recollect how many Representatives for places in England are natives of Ireland, and how many Natives of Ireland sit in the House of Peers excluSive of those representing the Peerage of Ireland. We shall resume this subjeel when we, are. in possession of the 'whole of the proceedings at this Meeting. The following notice ) , we are concerned to say, was this morning posted 'up at LLOYD'S : The following very distressing information has just been posted; it rests on the authority of a pri vate letter received this morning by a house of the frst respeaability. GOTTENBURGII, SEPT. 10.—We have just learnt, that out of a convoy of 35 sail from Eng land, bound to the Baltic, .21 'have been lost, with all their crews, a few days ago, not Lr frorn strand." " N.B. The Gottenburgh list received to-day is of the same date as the letter above, and makes no mention of the circumstance." The French cartel Eliza arrived at Falmouth, on Wednesday, from Morlaix. She brought over Mr. RIDGEWAY, the American Consul at Antwerp, who was the bearer of Dispatches from General ARM STRONG to Mr. PINCKNEY. General ARMSTRONG had left Paris, and was expeaed to embark for America last Monday. When the cartel sailed, it was reported at Morlaix that Generals JUNOT, MACDONALD and BELLIARD had incurred BUONA PARTE'S displeasure, and had been recalled from Spain. Mr. PowELL, Secretary to Mr. PINCKNEY, sailed from PlymoUth in a Cartel on Saturday, and landed at Morlaix on Sunday'. Thursday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- GUSTA and SornlA.,.took and airing in Windsor Park t.II twelve o'clock. The Royal Party was ac companied by Lord WALSINGHAM, Lidy ELY, Gen. WYN YARD, COTS. TAYLOR and DES*RHOW. A vessel named the Cora has arrived from Hayti, and brings letters to the 26th of July. General RIGALTD4I(I 10 have quelled the insurreCtion at Jeremie by gentle means, and to have returned from thence to Port-au-Prince, in order to prepare fig his attack upon CIIRISTOPHE. The depredations of the Ladrones appear to have ceased nearly altogether. They are said to have de livered themselves up, and a fleet of 300 sail pro ceeding to Chum pee for that purpose was pas•ed by Ihe Bombay ships Henchman, Cornwallis and lig ramgare,,, which had arrived at Bombay from China previous to the sailing of the ship Charles Grant. The whole of the reinforcements aheady received by, or destined for the army of Lord WELLINGTON, do not amount to more than 12,000 men, and' of these not more than 4000 are taken front England and Ireland, the remainder having been ordered from America, Cadiz, _and Sicily. By a letter received from an Officer in India we understand, a grand Expedition is fitting out, con sisting of the 56111, 6gth, 78th, 80th, 84th, 86th, and part of the 47th Regiments of Foot ; with 3000 Sepoys. They are to rendezvous at the Island of Madagascar, and when joined by troops from the Cape, are to proceed against the Isle of France. A battalion of Marines is ordered :to be lot med for some new enterprize. The men are now selett ing at Portsmouth, and it is supposed that the command will be given to Major SAVAGE, of the Marines. A Company 'of the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion is under orders to embark, at a moment's' notice, for Heligoland. General DISNEY and Capt. MARTIN left London yesterday morning; for Plymouth, to embark fur Cadiz to join the army. NAVAL NEWS. , FALMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Atrived the Frer lcb schooner cartel, Eliza, Captain Mott m, from Ma' laix, which place she lett the 14th she lalidej at Fowey on the 17th, Mr. RIDGEW AY (AmcricA Consul at Antwerp) .his family ail ze.tril sengers ; Mr. ItinoLwAY - was ch patches from General ARMSTRONG Mr. PINK"' London ; General AnmsTRoNG had left 13 . 1 r is LUsl W' pea ed to embark for merica Oil 17th inst.; when the E/La left I\iurlaix ; it w" said Alia( Generals jUNOT, APDON 1 .1), an d BEV LIA RD, had been recalled liom Spain, basing 414 curled NAPk:I. EON'S displeasure. Sailed the Lord Hobart packet for New Yak' and the Snake packet for Surinam. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 20,---Arrived his MajestP ship Hydra of 38 guns ) Captain MUNDY , from Gib' raltar, (a month's passage) . with the following trans" ports under convoy from thence, viz. Britannia, CLARK Benson, RUTHEIIFORD ; HeraduS, SON ; and the William Aside,. Jon ti Cx y ucis i alb bound to Portsmouth, were obliged to put in beg / by contrary winds; thcy•have . on board ,bout 9 0(), • ; French prisoners, whd are'dll in a healthy Slate; 3 convoy was 'to sail for England from Gibraltar the''ri day after tkose ships sailed. • • Arrived ins I\4:4j , .'sty's ship Zambia, Capts 33 MACKENZit from Cadiz ; sailed thence on the I S t . Sqternber, and has brought dispatches ; part ed !. with his Majesty's ship' /Awe/idle, of 74 guns, " If this port yesteiday; bound to Poasmouth with het • prize, the Alexander, Frech privateer, out g day's' which she captured some days since in cotnpof with the Zenobia ; the pritateer had cat tared vessel belon•,;ing to Guernsey, with a cargo 01 •bottles; his Majesty's ship- Zeirobia spoke a l evf days since his ;Majesty's ship FartunLle. Arrived the Jane, ARNOTT, iron) Sunderland; the lia.n!cr, THomAs, from Cork, last from F' d. mouth, wait proisions for this p ; also arriv ed a cartel from Mothik ; site t s'ailed from hence Saturday last with Mr. POWELL, who landed °E) Sunday' inorniii; 3150 arrived his bilmjesty's Sh'P Dryad, from the -Westward. PORTSMOUTII, SEPT. s i .—Came in this day leis Majesty's ship Diana from a cruiz':t otiCherbourg h. Sailed his Majesty's ship Rzehn.ond t.o the E " I " ward. His Majesty's ship Decoy is appointed convoy t 0 the Downs. DEAL, SEPT. 2 the Bl. , odltquizzi go' brig, and the Idas cutter, the former cm a Coll , off tL: Not Foreland, and the . latter f o r off Fit's'''. ing. The 92d Regiment marched in here thi.4 after noon and immediately embarked on board his ma jesty's ships Audacious arid Apollo fur Portugal. The Desiree frigate has arrived at Yarmonthf ter being on shore off the Texel she was ob:ir e ' r to throw her guns over board, a n d to start h water, to get off :—she is not much damaged. A Gentleman who left Antwerp on the 7th, 34 Amsterdam on the 14th •instant, states, that fit I former there were about 20 ships, of war , most which were of the line, in a state of creat tor , car t ness ; end, as nearly as he could judo,, about 1 ' were ready for sea. On the 3d i n s tan t, t h r ee sic" , gun-boats were launehed of the largest size. ' • A great number of hands were every day ern v ployed in preparing these ve s s e ls, an d i n order t o proceed with the greater rapidity th e men work e d • extra hours. Admiral De Wint e r had returned t o • Amsterdam, but the inhabita..ts had reason 1 0 e: "; pest h s return shortly to witness the ccmpletion 0 the fleet. triAt At Amsterdam, when our informant quitter.' city, there were not more than 4 , .100 French in V a r ; mon : they were in equal force at Rotterdam. • the Hague he bel'eved there were 2000, and r at . d , Utrecht 1500, but in some of the principal there were none, and their absence was supplied L'/ the Douaniers. The French soldiers are represented to behave i° t a most exemplary tunnuer, and•afrer nine o'clock I I night they all returned. to their quarters. The IN' c e saltier: had been marched out of their flat, v country to Spain, excepting a few regiments, yet 111, eomplete., which ~e re quickly to follow their CO panioos through France.—Aecoonts had bee!' re : t ceived of the arrival of some . part of this force - Bayonne. • ,t. It was rumoured in Holland, on the 14(11 lt that Bilonaparie inrended to meet his broiherPis e Q, at Bayonne, to coirsidt on further p•oce.edin:; s . l ": o Spain, but he was trot to .trust • hinisi4 within frontiers. It was genera;; bt:lie.ted, that sicktt e l l infested the French nrinirs in that country ; bu t all she public accounts the atlairs of, the PettinS ti were rvresentedas most prosperous. On - Wednesday, as a ca•k of sit iol was conv ey' in on a dray through the Strand, it burst; a. who was passing by, received part of its contents, and was literally burned to ashes. h, Sir HARRY HALFORD and Dr. DLncDAS arr.: e a Augusta Lodge, Windsor, on Wednesday stig`' i ,' l where :hey remitted the . night, wi h Dr. Part attendance Oil Princess AtidELLA.; al.d on Thuo ds; morning returned to London. Her Royal Hig-boeo remains much the same. Adkins, the Bow-street Officer, and H many years belonging to Mariborough-street are candidates for the situation of ,Keeper •gt . 13.. t la prisou. • • 2